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Logistics Region Münster/Osnabrück
Münster/Osnabrück links the A1 Hansalinie with the east-west A30 between Benelux, the Ruhr and northern Germany. A strong food industry, automotive and engineering plus a long-established forwarding sector shape the market, while land and rents sit below metropolitan levels.
Location and access
The region lies on the border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. At the Lotte/Osnabrück interchange the A1 between the Ruhr, Bremen and Hamburg meets the A30 between the Netherlands and Hanover, the A33 runs to Bielefeld and Paderborn and the A43 from Münster to the Ruhr. The trimodal Port of Osnabrück, linked to the Mittelland Canal by a branch canal, Münster's city port on the Dortmund-Ems Canal and Münster/Osnabrück Airport complement the road network. Bremen is about an hour and a half away, Rotterdam and Amsterdam about three hours.
Demand
The food industry and agricultural trade of the Münsterland and Osnabrück area are a national focal point, complemented by automotive, suppliers, engineering, plastics and packaging. Several large logistics providers originated here and run national and European networks from the region. Demand covers distribution, contract logistics and temperature-controlled space.
Clusters
Osnabrück with its port and Fledder, plus Lotte and Westerkappeln at the motorway interchange, form the northern focus. Münster has Loddenheide, Hansa-BusinessPark and the city port. Greven with AirportPark FMO combines air cargo and business space, while Rheine, Ibbenbüren and Hörstel on the A30 and Emsdetten benefit from available land and proximity to the Netherlands.
Outlook
Occupiers from the Ruhr and East Westphalia increasingly move here because land is scarce elsewhere. Former mining land in Ibbenbüren and former barracks in Osnabrück offer room for redevelopment. Port expansion and more rail traffic on the Mittelland Canal strengthen trimodal access, and new buildings rely on ESG standards and solar power.
Catchment area of the logistics region Münster/Osnabrück
We broker logistics and warehouse buildings, production and light industrial space and industrial land to let and for sale across the region, including in these towns:
- Ahaus
- Ahlen
- Ascheberg
- Bad Bentheim
- Beckum
- Belm
- Bissendorf
- Bramsche
- Coesfeld
- Damme
- Drensteinfurt
- Emsdetten
- Ennigerloh
- Georgsmarienhütte
- Greven
- Gronau
- Haren
- Hörstel
- Ibbenbüren
- Lengerich
- Lingen
- Lotte
- Löningen
- Meppen
- Münster
- Neuenkirchen
- Nordhorn
- Nottuln
- Ochtrup
- Osnabrück
- Quakenbrück
- Rheine
- Sassenberg
- Sendenhorst
- Steinfurt
- Telgte
- Versmold
- Wallenhorst
- Warendorf
- Westerkappeln
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